FRIB Experimental Bridge Faculty Position program

FRIB has established a bridge faculty program to enhance the opportunities for faculty hires at U.S. research universities with a focus on experimental research at FRIB or developments relevant for science at FRIB. 

The motivation of the FRIB Experimental Bridge Faculty program (the bridge program) is to enhance the opportunities for faculty hires at U.S. universities with a focus on experimental research at FRIB or developments relevant for science at FRIB. 

For the 2024-2025 year, we are again calling for proposals from academic institutions for bridge faculty searches. The complete proposals are to be submitted by 1 October 2024. Proposal requirements are described here (PDF).

Bridge faculty

• Bridge faculty are outstanding junior experimentalists who hold the promise to pursue strong experimental research programs based at FRIB or developments for FRIB. 
• Bridge faculty are 100-percent employees of their home institution, with all the associated benefits. 
• Bridge faculty are expected to build a research group, attract federal funding, and have teaching and other duties, equivalent to the other faculty at their home institution. 
• In addition, bridge faculty are expected to contribute significantly to the scientific program at FRIB and be spokespersons for FRIB science, nationally and internationally. 
• They are expected to spend time at FRIB and, for this reason, teaching relief could be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

In the first round for the 2023-2024 year, two faculty searches were approved at the physics departments of Mississippi State University and the University of Kentucky.